Product Description

An explanation of what happens to us when we die. The author, a surgeon with more than 30 years' experience, describes in detail the processes which take place in the body and sets out to strip away many illusions about death.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #231039 in Books
• Published on: 1997-05-29
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Review
A great aid to that noble dinner party game: how would you choose to go if you could pick your mode of dying? Little philosophical waffle here: this is a series of gritty portraits of the physical reality of death from a variety of causes, including heart disease, murder, suicide, cancer and, inevitably, AIDS; supplemented with medical explanations of the mechanics of failing bodies. It is a process in which Dr Nuland discerns little dignity, however much we may wish it. Not for the hypochondriac, but justifiably a bestseller for demythologizing the secrets of dying now so well concealed by the modern hospital method of death. (Kirkus UK)

Customer Reviews

Reasuring guide to how our bodies fail.
Ok, so it sounds morbid, a commentary on the many ways our bodies stop working at the end of our lives but it realy isn't. Proffesor Nuland writes with compassion and expalins in detail the connections between the different parts of our bodies in such a way that makes you feel quite unfased about death. The understanding takes away from the fear of dying and I would highly reccomend this book to anyone afraid for what's going to happen.